Late Tuesday evening, the House Education and Workforce Committee finalized a sweeping bill that would have far-reaching consequences on how American colleges and universities are held accountable. Among the biggest winners in the proposed legislation? For-profit colleges, which have long been accused of engaging in deceptive practices and saddling vulnerable students with both meaningless degrees and crushing debt. […]

The House Republican tax bill generated an uproar among graduate students when it proposed a tax on their tuition waivers that would cost many of them thousands of dollars a year. That provision seems to be gone in the final Republican compromise bill, but another piece of Republican legislation heading to the House floor could spell even […]

Nine of Denver’s 78 neighborhoods are classified as child care deserts, areas where the number of small children far exceeds the number of licensed child care slots, and efforts are under way to address the problem.

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At the end of September, the Federal Reserve released its annual collection of data gathered under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act. Among other findings, the report details that the country's three largest banks -- Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and JPMorgan Chase -- have sharply cut back on lending to low-income people over the past few years. The three banks' mortgages to low-income borrowers declined from 32 percent in 2010 to 15 percent in 2016.
The report also shows that in 2016, black and Latino borrowers had more difficulty acquiring home loans than whites. And it revealed that last year, for the first time since the 1990s, most mortgages didn't come from banks; they came from other institutions -- often less-regulated online entitites like Loan Depot or Quicken Loans. These companies, technically known as nonbank financial institutions, can be more flexible than traditional banks, but may also charge higher rates and fees.
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In the wake of the housing crisis, manufactured (mobile) homes offered people with fixed or low incomes an affordable alternative, but now Wall Street is trying to get in on this market, too. Kevin Borden, executive director of Manufactured Housing Action (MHAction), discusses how his organization is bringing owners of manufactured homes together to fight this new assault on affordable housing.
Manufactured homeowner activists from 11 states meet in Austin, Texas, on December 1, 2017, to protest Mobile Home University. (Photo courtesy of MHAction)
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Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. We're now several months into the Trump administration, and activists have scored some important victories in those months. Yet there is always more to be done, and for many people, the question of where to focus ...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks with the media after a news conference in Dirksen Building on the tax reform bill on November 30, 2017. (Photo: Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call)
While the Senate and House versions of the highly unpopular GOP tax bill are being reconciled, it's important to remember that the two have one thing in common: adding significantly to the national debt. This may seem counterintuitive for fiscal conservatives, but it's the perfect cover for the GOP's real agenda of cutting the social programs that almost every American relies on.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks with the media after a news conference in Dirksen Building on the tax reform bill on November 30, 2017. (Photo: Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call)
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Speaker of the House Paul Ryan has a plan: To get rid of nasty deficits, he says, all we need to do is "grow the economy, ...